Elementary School

1. Language Arts Terms I
A short form of a word Abbreviation

2. A word that tells what
people or things do.
Action Verb

3. A word that describes a noun
and can tell what kind or how
many.
Adjective

4. A word that describes a verb
and tells how, when, or where
Adverb

5. The use of a singular verb
with a singular subject and a
plural verb with a plural
subject
Agreement

6. A punctuation mark (‘)
used in contractions and
used to form possessive
nouns
Apostrophe

7. a word or phrase that
directly follows
another noun and
explains or identifies
Appositive

8. The adjectives a, an,
and the
Articles

9. Person or people who read
or listen to something
Audience

10. To think of different
ideas
Brainstorm

11. Words in connected
circles that show how
ideas are related
Cluster

12. A punctuation mark (,)
used to separate
words in a sentence.
Comma

13. Names any person,
place, or thing
Common Noun

14. Includes all the words
in the predicate
Complete Predicate

15. Includes all the words
in the subject
Complete Subject

16. Made by using and to
combine the
predicates of two
sentences with the
same subject
Compound Predicate

17. Two related, short
sentences that have
been combined, using
a comma and the
connection word, and,
but, or or
Compound Sentence

18. Formed by using and
to join the subjects of
two sentences with the
same predicate.
Compound Subject

19. A word that connects
words or groups of
words in a sentence
Conjunction

20. A shortened form of
two words joined
together. An
apostrophe replaces
the missing letter or
letters.
Contraction

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